Summary:
Essay discusses the imagination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Most people leave imagination, in the modern world, only to children. The children use their imaginations to fly around the world, to be doctors, or to put monsters under their beds. Seldom imagination can be thought of as a trait necessary for a career such as an illustrator, architect, or an inventor. These to different designations given here you may think are similar to the two distinctions given to imagination by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in chapter 13 of his book Biographica Literaria.
Coleridge's first idea of imagination he called 'primary' imagination. It was to him the "Prime agent of human perception" In other words thought. Likewise it is anything that allows you to see into the outside world, to know and to interact. And this trait of imagination is also what allows you to have belief in.....
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